Sarah browne artist biography

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Sarah Browne is a contemporary Irish artist who works in public art, performance, sculpture, and collaboration.
Curator Biography Sarah Browne is an artist based in Ireland concerned with non-verbal, bodily experiences of knowledge, labour and justice.

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Sarah Brown was born in England and arrived in Australia in 1974 with her family. She grew up in Maryborough on the Queensland coast where she started both painting, and had her first three exhibitions, and discovering Australia’s Indigenous cultural history. She then trained in nursing and as a health educator in Sydney and Adelaide and soaked up the creative stimuli of those cities.

In 1992 when Sarah arrived in the Northern Territory as a newly-minted 24-year-old health professional, she was sent immediately to teach Indigenous health workers in Kintore, a 550km drive from her new home base in Alice Springs.

There was no time for making art in those early years of remote travel; solitary posts as a Remote Area Nurse (RAN); and raising three children under five. The urge to paint was insistent however and after Sarah had painted the walls, ceilings and all the cupboard doors at home, family consensus was that she’d better start on canvas.

Over the last twenty-four years Sarah has worked in many remote Northern Territory communities as a nurse and health educato

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Sarah Browne

Sarah Browne is an artist based in Ireland. Her research-based practice investigates the materiality of knowledge, exploring where invisible structures of power meet bodily, sensory experience. Deeply informed by feminist theory, this sculptural practice includes writing, publishing, performance and public projects, encountered both within and outside gallery environments, as well as extensive collaboration.

Her use of moving image arose from a documentary impulse, and early works paired the display of sculpture with the documentation of those objects being made or used in non-gallery situations. She has since worked with diverse moving image formats, including digital tape, iPhone video, archival material, super 8 and 16mm film. In each case she is concerned with filmmaking as a social and embodied process: she is sensitive to the camera as an object that influences not only the visual appearance of the image on-screen, but the quality of engagement between the camera and the people involved in the production. In her editing process, she considers film as a textil

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Kunstverein Aughrim’s Winter Preview with Sarah Browne took place on Saturday 14 December 2024, from 11am to 3pm at Kunstverein Aughrim and other venues around the town.

The Winter Preview was designed to share insight into some of the creative processes Browne uses within her artistic practice. The event began with a warming welcome drink and short guided tactile tour of Browne’s exhibition Tógaimid ár dteanga le carraigeacha, introduced by curator Kate Strain. Visitors were invited to handle a cast of objects including upholstered stones, a squeaky goddess, a quilted text, wrapped books, stripped, nicked and hinged sticks. These are things that Browne has found, adapted, and thought through, in the development of what she calls ‘sensory vocabularies’ for various artistic projects. Following an introduction to the wider questions driving Browne’s practice, visitors walked together to a nearby venue, for an in-person presenta